Vox Pops

Today we were going to gain more experience with using the camera and microphone as a crew by doing the task of getting Vox Pops from the public on the street. Vox Pops are short interviews that are normally used in the news showing the general publics views and opinions on a subject, the subject we were asking about was Ebola because of it's current status in world news. Within our group we thought of well worded questions to ask people and selected roles we all felt comfortable in for when were filming. The roles were interviewer, camera, sound and someone to find people to interview, I varied from filming with the camera and monitoring the sound and once we started to get going we got some great interviews and responses from the public that were very genuine. It was great how well people cooperated with us and how willing they were to give up there time for our project, I'd say the task was very educational in the fact we needed to get everything right to be successful, we were quick setting up and on time and focused while doing the interviews, it also helped us gain confidence with talking to the public and becoming a lot more familiar with the equipment we'll be using over the next few years. We had one minor problem with the headphones connecting to the camera because we couldn't hear the sound coming through clearly but we seemed to overcome it and the sound quality was not damaged by this when we played it back so it was quite successful in hindsight.